In Fed we trust : Ben Bernanke's war on the great panic /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Crown Business,
c2009.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Let ol' Lehman go : the pivotal weekend of September 12-14, 2008
- "Periodical financial debauches" : the long-forgotten history of the Fed
- Age of delusion : what Greenspan wrought
- There are Jews in Boston, too : who is Ben Bernanke?
- Pas de deux : the great panic begins in August 2007
- The four Musketeers : Bernanke's brain trust ; Bernanke, Kohn, Warsh, and Geithner
- Re: Re: ... Blue sky : the Fed's first response to the great panic
- Running from behind : how the Fed got behind the curve, and how it caught up
- "Unusual and exigent" : Bear Stearns, the first rescue
- Fannie, Freddie, and "Feddie" : taking over Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, and pondering next steps
- Breaking the glass : the fallout from Lehman and AIG and going to Congress
- finally
- "Socialism with American characteristics" : forcing taxpayer capital on the banks
- World of ZIRP : the Fed gets rates to zero
- Did Bernanke kep his promise to Milton Friedman? the early verdict.